A shooting last weekend at a children’s birthday party in California that left four dead was the 17th mass killing this year — the lowest number recorded since 2006, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University. Experts warn that the drop doesn’t necessarily mean safer days are here to stay and […]
In a decision that has ignited immediate outrage, Stonnington Council in Melbourne, Australia, has voted to delay approval of a Chanukah Menorah at Malvern Town Hall until after the Yom Tov ends, effectively canceling the city’s public celebration. The vote, which split the council 4–4, forced Mayor Melina Sehl to cast the deciding ballot. She […]
A week after the body of slain hostage Dror Or was returned from Gaza, Israel on Tuesday received materials (“findings”) transferred from the Gaza Strip via the Red Cross, though
Emergency crews raced to reach survivors and recover more bodies Tuesday as the death toll from last week’s catastrophic floods and landslides surged past 1,300 in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand, with nearly 900 people missing. Days of heavy monsoon rains inundated vast areas, leaving thousands stranded and many clinging to rooftops and trees waiting for help. […]
The world economy has proven surprisingly durable in the face of President Donald Trump’s trade wars, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Tuesday, upgrading its outlook for global and U.S. economic growth this year. The 38-country OECD now forecasts that the world economy will grow 3.2% this year, down a tick from 3.3% […]
Former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández, sentenced last year to 45 years in prison for his role in helping drug traffickers move hundreds of tons of cocaine to the United States, was released from prison following a pardon from President Donald Trump, his wife announced Tuesday. The U.S. Bureau of Prisons inmate website showed that […]
U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff was due to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday, taking to the Kremlin an embryonic peace plan that Washington hopes can end to the nearly four-year war in Ukraine. Coinciding with Witkoff’s trip, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy went to Ireland, continuing his visits to European countries […]
Haiti’s transitional presidential council has backed an electoral law in the latest step toward holding a general election for the first time in nearly a decade. The approval late Monday means that the government can finally publish an official and long-awaited electoral calendar, after fears that the council would try to push back the tentative […]
Visiting Bolivia became a little easier for certain travelers on Monday, when the South American nation’s first conservative government in nearly 20 years eliminated visa requirements for citizens from the United States and Israel, among several other countries, as part of a broader geopolitical and economic overhaul. Americans and Israelis, as well as citizens of […]
US special envoy Tom Barrack sent a message to the Iraqi government stating that Israel plans to carry out an imminent operation in Lebanon aimed at disarming Hezbollah, the Saudi
The terrorist who committed a car ramming attack near Chevron on Monday night, lightly injuring a female soldier, was eliminated overnight Monday, hours after the attack. A manhunt was launched immediately after the attack, and with the assistance of the Shin Bet, the terrorist was found in Chevron, hiding inside the vehicle he used to carry […]
A terrorist stabbed two IDF soldiers on Tuesday morning near the yishuv of Ateret in Binyamin, lightly wounding them. Initial reports said that an Israeli civilian noted that a Palestinian
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Air travelers in the U.S. without a REAL ID will be charged a $45 fee beginning in February, the Transportation Security Administration announced Monday. The updated ID has been required
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s controversial vaccine advisory committee will be meeting later this week under a new chairperson, federal officials announced Monday. Martin Kulldorff is leaving the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices to take a leadership role within the Department of Health and Human Services, officials said. Dr. Kirk Milhoan, who has blamed vaccines for […]
President Donald Trump is facing one of the worst approval ratings recorded for any modern president entering a midterm cycle, according to a new Gallup survey that CNN’s chief data analyst Harry Enten described as “a disaster” for the White House and the Republican Party. The fresh Gallup numbers, released Monday morning, show Trump’s net […]
NY Governor Kathy Hochul welcomed Jewish community leaders and elected officials from across New York State to the Executive Mansion on Monday afternoon for her annual Chanukah gathering. The event
The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday overwhelmingly approved legislation that would explicitly bar anyone involved in the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023 massacre in southern Israel from entering or remaining in the United States. The “No Immigration Benefits for Hamas Terrorists Act of 2025,” sponsored by Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.), adds direct references to the […]
The U.K. has secured a 0% tariff rate for all U.K. medicines exported to the U.S. for at least three years, officials said Monday, in return for the U.K. spending
President Donald Trump has invited Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House “in the near future,” Netanyahu’s office announced Monday evening, following a call between the two leaders. According to the Israeli readout of the call, Trump and Netanyahu reaffirmed their “commitment to dismantling Hamas’s military capabilities and demilitarizing the Gaza Strip,” and also […]
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